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Old 09-12-09, 02:57 PM   #106
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Default Equipment Failure

Last Thursday, I had made great progress having finished the fifteenth hole.

I also suffered a setback when the pully which is at the top of my drill set-up failed.


I was trying to extract an auger from the hole #16 and the forces generated by the 2000 pound winch easily deformed it.


I wasn't terribly surprised as the pully was actually made for reeling in clothes line. I had estimated correctly that it was a good match for the manual winch, but the power winch was just too much for the light assembly.

So I bought a winch-grade pully and rebuilt the pully-carrier, this time with much stouter steel.


Problem resolved.

So now, with the show...



Regards,

-AC_Hacker
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